Author: chad
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IMA Minigolf
chad eby IMA Minigolf These two holes were featured as part of the Indiana Museum of Art’s artist-designed miniature golf courses for the 2016 and 2017 seasons. Curated by Scott Stulen + Tom Loftus and Robin Schwartzman (aka A Couple of Putts), these open air interactive exhibits were enjoyed by tens of thousands of IMA…
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Dust Objects
chad eby Dust Objects These ongoing small works are form explorations using subdivision surface modeling and various 3D printing and other digital fabrication techniques. Sub-D surfaces attempt to conserve surface area in relation to volume in much the same way that diatoms and other small creatures do, yielding complex highly organic forms from fairly simple…
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Cylinder #5
chad eby Cylinder #5 These form studies embody tensions between seed geometry within a regular grid and the influence of the “natural force” of subdivision surface smoothing. In this case, random selection marks some faces of the tubular seed primitive for extrusion and invagination—a process that blows the form open and creates a double-walled vessel.…
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Empathy Test
chad eby Empathy Test (This is not the story I wanted to tell you) Part of Sound Through Barriers, Empathy Test explores the sounds of a machine model of self-recognition, approach/avoidance behavior and the inevitability of any measurement to alter the thing measured. Randomly generated pulses serve both to drive the servomotors’ positions as well…
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stopfmaschine
chad eby stopfmaschine stopfmaschine employs active infra-red sensors and light dependent resistors to drive a microcontroller-hosted granular synthesis engine and trigger recorded samples of the clicks of dying hard drives and the groans of stress-induced metal fatigue. A servo-driven pendulum modulates the live sound synthesis based on viewer presence and proximity. stopfmaschine was exhibited at Gro{o}ve, a show curated…
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America is Very Wide
chad eby America is Very Wide That was something my host-mother used to say to indicate that anything was possible. She believed in UFOs—not in Japan—but in the U.S., because “America is very wide…” This piece uses ambisonic spatial audio to imagine a room large enough to contain all fifty United States and to place…
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Memory Maps
chad eby Memory Maps Memory Maps are screen-captures of the ephemeral results of video memory corruption enlarged to nearly 1 pixel= 1 cm and printed on a large format ink-jet printer. The tropical colors and comb- and net-like structures are purely artifacts of the content of the video buffer when things went wrong. This sort…
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The Oracle at Elsewhere
chad eby The Oracle at Elsewhere The Oracle at Elsewhere was built and shown at Elsewhere as part of a competitive residency. At a public performance, petitioners were asked to pour a libation, choose an avatar, ask a question and then place the avatar on the altar (a disused heater housing—ed.), at which point the heater roared to…
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Intonarumori 2.0
chad eby Intonarumori 2.0 Intonarumori 2.0 is a digital reinterpretation of the Italian Fututrist Luigi Russolo’s Intonarumori noise instruments. As in the original, a hand-crank is turned on the back of the boxy device to produce noises from the front. In this updated version, six levers are added, each corresponding to: (one) (two) (three) (four) (five)…
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Interactive Waiting Room
chad eby Interactive Waiting Rooms (with Living Networks) Interactive waiting room pavilion for Philips Electronics, Europe at the International Dental Show 2007 in Cologne, Germany. My role with Living Networks was to the develop software for integration of RFID, directional audio and DMX lights, lighting design and hardware installation on-site. The system used a palette…